Shen Yun Coverage

Astounding High-Flying Dives, Jumps, Turns, and Flips

Welcome to the Sound Of Hope Radio network, This is Catherine Hennessy and in this program we will be covering the Divine Performing Arts in Chicago’s Civic Opera House on December the 27th at 7PM.

The Divine Performing Arts have, as of the 31st of December, completed tours in Florida’s Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Jacksonville, Georgia’s Atlanta, Texas’s Houston, North Carolina’s Duhram, Pansylvania’s Philadelphia, Ohio’s Cincinnati, Michigan’s Detroit, Illinois’s Chicago, and California’s San Diego.

Attending the Chicago evening performance were Katerina and Liyana. Katerina is a real estate agent, Liyana is a flower designer. Katerina is impressed by the stories in all dances. Liyana is a Russian ballet lover and thinks that Classical Chinese Dance is more than just Ballet, it also has gymnastic-like skills and extremely demanding aerial techniques.

Katerina and Liyana both were delighted to share their thoughts and experineces with SOH reporter.

We’ll now listen to their feelings and insights about the show.

Classical Chinese dance is a unique dance heritage. In its early stages it was mainly passed down among the common people, through members of the imperial court, and as part of ancient theater. Over the years, dancers refined, experimented with, and reworked it to arrive at the extraordinary system of Chinese classical dance known today. It is pat of the divinely inspired heritage that is China’s five-mellennia-old culture, and one means by which that culture lives on.

Classical Chinese dance has as its foundation China’s divinely inspired culture of five thousand years. The unique art of Chinese dance that we know today, with its impressive scale and system, is the product of generations of dancers’ many years of artistic experience combined with their refining, reorganizing and reworking of the art form.

Classical Chinese dance has its own complete set of training methods in foundational skills, strict regimen for perfecting bearing and form and means of training for skill sets such as jumps, turns, and flips, as well as extremely demanding aerial techniques, culminating in an enormous dance system. The aerial movements of classical Chinese dance contain a wealth of high-flying dives, dexterous leaps, and diverse spins.

It is the deeper resonances of traditional Chinese culture, however, that imbue a dancer’s movements with such rich expressive power. The dancer is thus capable of not only portraying a given figure’s disposition or mood, but even the vivid expressions unique to a certain age, whatever the land or time.

The Divine Performing Arts three troupe are currently scheduled to tour in Los Angeles’ Pasadena Civic Auditorium from the 1st – 8th January; San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House from the 9th – 13th January, California’s Cupertino’s Flint Center for the Performing Arts from the 14th – 15th January, Boston’s Boston Opera House from the 10th – 11th January, New Jersy’s New Brunswick’s State Theater from the 24th – 25th January, Newark’s New Jersy’s Performing Arts Center from the 26th – 27th January, New York City’s Brooklyn in the Howard Gilman Opera House from the 3rd – 4th January, New York City’s Westchester’s The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on the 23th of January, and New York City”s Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall from the 24th – 25th January, Seattle’s The Paramount Theater on the 18th of January, and Oragon’s Portland’s Keller Auditorium on the 20th of January, Indiana’s Indianapolis’s Murat Theater on the 31st of January, and Collarado’s Denver’s Buell Theater at the Denver Performing Arts Center from the 30th – 31st of January.

Tickets can be purchased from www.ticketmaster.com and for more information please visit
www.divineperformingarts.com

Thank you for joining us for this special coverage of the Divine Performing Arts; I’m Catherine Hennessy for the Sound Of Hope Radio Network.

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